Book covers



Jan, 12', 1965 s. s. LElBowrrz 3,165,337

BooK covERs Filed March 15I 1963 2 Sheets-Sheet l 1N VENTOR Sydney 5. Le/'ovv/Z 32 36 BY, a/ f /MMMW ,Z A TO/VEY Jan. l2, 1965 s, s, LElowl-rz 3,165,337

BOOK COVERS Filed March 15, 196s 2 sheets-sheet 2 /6 1oz i f8 Z 36 66 f6 32 @f8 n f//IEM/ INVENTOR.

A To/NEY United States Patent V3,165,337 EOFI COVERS Sydney S. Leibowitz, 169 Westerleigli Road, New Haven, Conn. Filed Mar. 15, 1963, Ser. No. 265,477 4 Ciairns. (Si. 281-34) The present invention relates, in general, to book covers and, in particular, to book covers which can b utilized for advertising purposes. Y

It is an object of the present invention to provide a transparent book cover or jacket which is adapted to be readily and easily slipped on or olf a book or a magazine and which includes portions outside the book covering areas which are adapted to contain advertising material.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a cover or jacket of the described type ywhich is formed from a single blank of transparent sheet material, which blank is provided with the advertisement receiving portions.

It is another object of the present invention to provide i a cover or jacket from a blank of the described type, which blank includes portions which 'form pockets for receiving the cover of the book or the cover pages of a magazine and portions as extend beyond said pockets to receive advertising material.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a cover or jacket of the described type having pockets to receive a book cover and at least one auxiliary pocket for a pad or the like.

It is a still further object o fthe present invention to provide an auxiliary pocket on the outer surface of the book cover which can be folded and secured in position against such outer surface.

Other and further objects and advantages of the present invention will become readily apparent to those skilled in the art from a consideration of the following specification taken in connection with the appended drawings which illustrate the best modes presently contemplated for carrying out the invention.

In the drawings:

FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a sheet material blank utilized to form a book cover or jacket pursuant to the present invention;

FIGURE 2 illustrates a book jacket formed from the blank shown in FIGURE 1;

FIGURE 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of FIGURE 2;

FIGURE 4 is a View similar to FIGURE 2 and illustrates a modiiied book cover or jacket;

FIGURE 5 illustrates another form of book cover pursuant to the present invention which is adapted to be used with various different sizes of books, and shows a book on which the cover is provided;

FIGURE 6 illustrates a book provided with a sirnplied cover pursuant to the present invention;

FIGURE 7 illustrates a cover similar to that shown in FIGURE 6, which is adapted to accommodate books of different thicknesses;

FIGURE 8 is a fragmentary view which illustrates a modied form of sheet material blank; and

FIGURE 9 isa perspective view of a book provided with a cover `formed from the blank shown in FIGURE 8l Referring now to the drawings in detail, FIGURE 1 shows a blank It) which is utilized to form the book, or

magazine, jacket or cover 12, pursuant to the present The blankfli) is formed of transparent invention. flexible, preferably plastic, `sheet material, such as a vinyl plastic. As here shown, the blank 10 comprises a body portion 14 provided with integral side tlaps 16 and 18, an integral bottom edge ilap 20, and a pair of upper edge laterally spaced integral projections 22 and 24. The side aps 16 and 18 are foldable on their respective fold lines 26 and 2S, Iand the bottom edge flap 20 is foldable on the fold line 30.

In forming the book jacket or cover 12, the flaps 16 and 13 are folded on their respective fold lines 26 and 28 and are heat sealed to the body portion 14 to form the upper heat sealed edges 32-32, adjacent to the upper edge 36 of the jacket and the lower heat sealed edges 34-34 adjacent to the lower edge 38 of the jacket. The sealed flaps 16 and 1S dene enclosuresor pockets 40 and 42 lhaving inner longitudinal pocket openings 44 and 46, respectively. The bottom ilap 20 is folded up on its fold line 30 and is heat sealed along its side edges 48 and 56, to dene a pocket 52 having an upper edge opening S4. v

Pursuant to an important feature of the present invention, the upper horizontal portion 56 of the book cover, which is defined between the top edge 36 and the upper edges 32 of pockets 4t) and 42, provides an advertis ing area 56 which is adapted to be suitably provided with advertising indicia 58. Similarly, the lower horizontal portion of the book cover, between the bottom edge 3S and the bottom edge 34 of pocket 4t?, extending to theinner edge 48 of pocket 52, provides an Iadvertising area 60 which is adapted to be suitably provided with advertising indicia 58. The advertising indicia is preferably provided on the blank 10 before the cover 12 is formed therefrom. Since the blank 10 is transparent, the advertising indicia 58 may be provided on either surface thereof.

The projection 22 is utilized to form a carrying loop 62 for the cover 12. The loop 62 is formed by heat sealing the free end 64 of projection 22 to the body portion 14 of the blank 10. The other projection 24 functions as a book mark simply by bending it downwardly at upper edge 36 to the broken line position thereof shown in FIGURE 2.

A book or a magazine BM may be readily provided with a cover or jacket 12 by simply inserting the sections of the book cover 68 or the outer cover pages of the magazine, into the pockets 40 and 42 through the pocket openings 44 and 46, respectively, as shown in FIGURE 6. The latter figure shows a book cover 66 which is similar in all respects to the book cover 12 except for the auxiliary pocket 52, the loop 62 and the book mark 24 which are omitted from cover 66. It will be noted that the omission of pocket 52 increases the size of the lower advertising portion 60 in cover 66 so that it is substantially the same size as the upper advertising portion 56.

It will be noted that the advertising material 58 is readily pocket yedges 32 'or the lower pocket edges 34, .as theA case may be. It will be understood that 4the auxiliary pocket 52 can be utilized to hold a pad, pencils, or the like which may extend outwardly from the pocket opening 54 to overlie the pocket 42, so as not to interfere withv the pages of the book or magazine. v

Referring now to FIGURE 4 in detail, there is shown a modified form of book cover 68. Book cover 68 may be, similar to either book cover 12 (without loop 62 and book mark 24) or book cover66.` In either case the upper advertising portion 56 is folded upon itself and heat sealed to the blank body 14 at the free edge 7) of said portion S6, above the upper edges 32 of the pockets 40` side of the cover 68 of the book .or magazine BM is inserted Vinto the pocket Y 4t), as in -the previously described jackets, and the otherV Y substantially similar to jacket 66.

9,6 fjacket 94 is "provided with corrugations 9S which make thev spine' expansible so that both relatively thick and 42. VWhen so folded upon itself and sealed tothe blankbodyli; the upper portion 56 will dene atunnel "72 intowhich-there'is removably insertablea strip '7d :provided with suitable advertising" indicia 58. The tunnel may -be openat both ends thereofror closed kat one end 1 thereof. ln Veither case, the strip 74 may be changed, 4as

desired, toprovide different advertisements. In the Yernlike.' Thepo'cketeaab' folded upwardly 'onto the ja'ekei and retainedtin positionV thereonby engagement of the snap fastener elements. e n n j v Brom therforegoing, it Will-be apparent that I have pro- Y- vided a highly novel,` eflieientand inexpensive'book cover Y or jacket. It-will be Vunderstood that various changes or bodiment ofthe book cover 63, provision is made for a f book mark' which is heatV sealed to the sealed edge 32 of' pocket V42.

Referring now to FIGURE in detail, there isshown a book coverf78 which, as here shown, is similar to book cover 66 inFIGURE 6. Book cover 7S is adapted toV accommodate` booksvofy different cover size. For this j purpose, in lieu of -the'pocket 42, there is'provided a apl Sti which issealed to the book cover 7S only at its upper and lower edges 82 andl and vis unsealed at rits side When utilizing the jacket78, one

side is inserted under theV flap between the Aedge S6 modifications maybe made therein .without however de- 1 parting fromthe concept of the vpresentinventionl as set f forth in the appended claims. f

lclaim:

l. A book jacket comprising a body Vportion formed of transparent flexible rsheet material, `said Abody portion being provided on one surface thereof with a pair of Y laterally spaced book cover enclosures, said enclosures e :ich having an opening extending between the upper and lower edges of said jacket, and said enclosures having ofthe flap and the underlying portion of the jacket 7&2'

lf the cover 68, in the open condition'th'ereof as shown, Y has a greater horizontal dimension than the horizontal dimension of the open book jacket'78, the free marginal edge Vwill project beyond the side edgel 88 of ilap 80 Y and beyond ,the associated side edge 92 of jacket 7S. In

this manner, the jacket '73 canbe-used with bookswhich are larger than they jacket.

Referring now yto FGURE 7 inV detail, there is shown` a book cover or jacket 94 which can accommodate books Y As here shown, jacket 94 is.l

However, the spine* of different thicknesses.

and :relatively thin books are accommodated vby the jacket 94. Y Y

Y .Referring now .to'FIGURESV 8 and 9 in detail, there is v -shown a book cover or jacket formed of a blank@ 102. Blank 102 is substantially similar to blank 14D having` a body portion 14 provided with flaps Sie and id which form 'pockets #i0 and42, respectively when sealed to the body portion, asV previously described, to receive a book or magazine BM in the same manner. The jacket 100 is provided also with `an upper advertisingextension or portion 56 and' with a lower advertising extension or por-tion 60,l beyond vthe upper pocket edges 32 andthe lower pocketV edges 34, respectively.V PursuantV to one f feature thereof, the blank .ltiZris provided with biased Y edges 104- at the corners thereof, rather than with the' corner edges 106 asinblank 10. When the blank1i2- is formed into-th'ebook jacket 100, the biased edges 166 Y thereofrf'acilitate the thurnbing ofV therenclosed book by ,the user, as Willbe readily `apparent from FIGURE 9.

closed upper -and'lower marginal edges extending trans` versely of said openings, and an advertising extension provided'ron'said jacket .betweenV associated: closed rnarginal edges of said enclosures and the adjacent edge of said jacket, said `advertising extension comprising. a tunnelin which an advertising strip'isremovably insertible. 2. A book jacketas inV claimV Vl,VV said tunnel :being closed at one end thereof; t

, 5.KV A lbook jacket comprising a `*blank of transparent flexible sheetmaterial having YVa body -portionand a pair` of integral lateral extensions'provided on'saidjbody por-k tion, said extensionsV being foldedV over upon-said body vportion and vsecured thereto along the upper .and lower edges of said extensions to define a pair 'of bookzcover pockets, and said Ybody portion having'a marginalA edge spaced outwardly from adjacent marginal edgesv of said pockets to deiine a free unobstructed surface portionl eX-' tending between opposite side edges of's'aid Ybody portion for receiving advertising material, said surface portionl defining ak tunnel in Vwhich.anadvertising lstrip isl insertable. V i i' L 4. A Vbook jacket comprising a `blank of; transparent Vflexible sheet: material having {arbody 'portion land a pair of integral lateral extensionsprovided.onvsaid body por-V tion, said vextensions being folded 'over upon said Vbody portion and secured thereto along the upper @and 4lower edges of' saidV extensions to dene a pair of book cover l pockets, andr'said .body portion having upper., and ylower Y .marginalV edgesV spaced outwardly from Vthe associatedl upper and lower edges of said pocketsto provide a pair 11n lieu of the iiap 2@ vwhich was utiiized `to form Yanv Y* Vinner pocket 52 as in FIGURE 2V, the blank 102 isV pro?V videdV with a projecting iiap 108. Flap 1.708V is provided 110-hasa top opening122 andv is provided with aniale snap fastenerelement12al adjacent to its lbottom 118.VV A

cooperating female snap fastener element 126Y is providedY *onfthe cover'. Pocketllt) is adapted to hold a padvor the,

jacket, is heat sealed `along its outer edges li. and V116,

on the'jacket'liiti. yMore specifically, therflap 1.08, when 60 of free Vunobstructed surface portions onlsaid vbody por'- tion which extend .between oprios'iter sidefedges of said body portion to define advertising extensions, each of said Vsurface portions deiining a vtunnel inwhich an advertising ystripV is insertible. -v

` y Referencesited vthe Examiner; Y UNrjrnD STATES VVPATENfrs Y Janome SCHNALL, kPrfnia'ry Examinar( LAWRENCE CHARLEs,Examinar. 

1. A BOOK JACKET COMPRISING A BODY PORTION FORMED OF TRANSPARENT FLEXIBLE SHEET MATERIAL, SAID BODY PORTION BEING PROVIDED ON ONE SURFACE THEREOF WITH A PAIR OF LATERALLY SPACED BOOK COVER ENCLOSURES, SAID ENCLOSURES EACH HAVING AN OPENING EXTENDING BETWEEN THE UPPER AND LOWER EDGES OF SAID JACKET, AND SAID ENCLOSURES HAVING CLOSED UPPER AND LOWER MARGINAL EDGES EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF SAID OPENINGS, AND AN ADVERTISING EXTENSION PROVIDED ON SAID JACKET BETWEEN ASSOCIATED CLOSED MAR- 